Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes

I knew nothing about editing when I met Mr. Scorsese... Through a series of weird events, I ended up at New York University, and there was Martin Scorsese, and he had some troubles with a film I was able to fix. That's the only reason I became a filmmaker.

Thelma Schoonmaker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: algerian
  • Birth: January 3, 1940

Topics

New YorkWeirdNewNothingEditing

When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.

Joe Mantegna

BetterWeekNothingDeadIf I Could

We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.

Johan Santana

HistoryTogetherTeamMadeTonight

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Andrew Cuomo

WarPovertyNeverMaybe

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

Robert Kennedy

FitnessExcellenceStrongConfident

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.

Ann Richards

HomeSchoolThinkProcessLostNow

Life is unfair. I got nothing but the best.

Jean Marais

LifeBestNothingUnfairGot

Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

Jeff Greenfield

LifeFatherChildThinkPowerful

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.

Roger Rees

TalkingToo MuchNobodyNowTalk

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Ruth St. Denis

LifeNatureWisdomArtReligion

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.

Mary Barnett Gilson

HigherLonelierClimbs

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Miriam Toews

SmallYearsMiddleTownCanadian

If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.

Mitch Kapor

AttentionYouWouldValuableEcology

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